“Registered sex offender” is accurate and “sex offender” is not.

Personally, I’ll never use either. People listed on the Registries are PFRs. Certainly not sex offenders.

If 100% of the anti-Registry people stopped saying “sex offender” that would matter. But that’s apparently too much effort. Some people want to spread the propaganda of big government.

The media knowing uses disparaging modifiers like “registered SO” instead of just “SO” because somehow “registered” is more attention-grabbing and instantly instills fear in people.

This is the ignorance and hate we’re trying to deprogram, but fear sells itself and is pervasive. It’s like attempting to shut down a game of whac-a-mole with facts and reasoning, but media and political scaremongering keeps it going.